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Saturday, 16 February 2019

All change!

For an inspired series of graphics of the Brexit alignments and realignments in Parliament, visit the Guardian - one of the captures below.

Like an amoeba undergoing mitosis, our Parliament is resolving into four distinct factions. Brexit has split both Labour and Conservative parties, and the papers are just beginning to pick up on the fallout.

39 comments:

The current two-party system, supposedly based on Left v Right political inclinations no longer works in the UK. The new divide is between those who believe in Democratic National Sovereignty and those who believe the future is Oligarchic Supra-nationalism.

The current set-up of "broad church" Labour and Conservative Parties cannot effectively represent both views, since they are completely incompatible.

Brexit may be the straw that breaks the two-party system and the FPTP voting system.

We all project to some extent Raed, and I am a convinced European. I'm extremely disappointed by what has happened to my country of late, but I accept that the UK is leaving the EU.

There has been no threat of violence from the Remain side, even though it is largely the young and fit who comprise it.

However, ironically, there has been just that from all over the Leave one, despite the fact that the Leave voters are largely elderly. Yes, you might get the BNP-ukip football hooligans to kick off about a customs unions, say, but that would be about it.

A wholesale evacuation of the Blairite metro elite will leave a funny old residue in the pan.

It is a shame we won’t see a Labour Government in action for it would certainly rattle the likes of Chukkup, Shameless and ET.

A PM refusing to use our nuclear deterrent, a Marxist Chancellor, a racist Home Secretary, An incongruesly titled Foreign Secretary, an ex pawn shop and call centre operator as Business Secretary and a barely literate 15 year old pregnant school leaver as Education Secretary.

A shame also as the above would seriously tempt me to return to Portugal; and I would rather like that.

Whether we leave the EU now or when it collapses in a few years time is not really what will lead to a better system of democracy. The real EU issue, is whether or not in the meantime, we succumb to the globalist oligarchic system as DeeDee99 points out.

What we really need is a more meaningful reflection of citizens' concerns, and you don't get that under the current two party system of tendencies.

The best way to get the above is by replacing representative democracy with citizen initiated issue based binding votes as in Switzerland.

The difficulty with arriving at this happy state, is that those that have their hands on the controls would rather keep their sticky hands there, it's like being in possession of the golden egg laying goose.

We can see this, following the most groundbreaking experiment in democracy that has led to every kind of abuse by this cabal that one can think of. They know that we will get real meaningful power under a DD system, and whether the recent vote was based on a combination of emotion and logic rather than live data or statistics (and you know what they say about them), and that will break their hold forever.

It is therefore a VERY left/right thing, the socialist is forever wanting to interfere and impose its will on others, whereas the classical liberal/conservative is happy to be left alone and to leave others alone.

God help us if a true socialist/communitarian zealot gets its fingers in the pie.

As much as I despise that northern tabloid and its apparent readership, it has proven rather more trustworthy than others this last couple of years when quoting FACTS and its 'live' politics blog/ticker tends to be on the money. The opinion pieces tend to suck donkey cock ...or are campaigning for the freedom to do so.

Jack Ketch, I would trust the Mail before the Guardian/BBC nexus. And I don't trust the Mail one jot. A paper that uses the term "europhobe" as the Guardian does is just a propaganda rag and, if it believes its own propaganda, entirely misses the point.

"All of which makes me cheerful. I loathe the privileged complacency and sense of entitlement of our politics more than anything - it's time to give the bag a shake."

Agreed!

And how right you are R.

TPTB, the great and the good, the 'experts', the chatterati, the meejah and KLAN leftwing think tanks, quangoes have played the Left versus right game for long enough! Ah but people have, are, beginning to see through the game and its smoke and mirrors.

The toryboys or lavs - what's the bloody difference?

Where and, more EUrope is always their answer. Indeed the only distinction that can be discerned between red and red lite rosettes is one of speed of travel, the lavs will get us all to Venezuela first but know it, the crony corporate statists are also running the country into the ground.Running Britain into perdition, because fundamentally both political parties are so designed to maintain the status quo ante (in the clutches of the EU) and it relentless, egregious end, the deconstruction of the nation state.

Deconstruction tactics.

To wit; keep the borders wide open while enabling welfare free at the point of access - no questions asked and that way only leads to bankruptcy and the logical extension towards ensuing anarchy. Plus and not least tory and lav adhered to, gold plating EU regulation, excessive taxation the green agenda, PC, multcult, wimin running the shop, a law and order service given over to making a largely law abiding public - enemy No 1.

This cannot go on, we need to 'readjust' Parliament and then we'll come for the media and the UK administration.

"we" just need to stop paying AND GOVERNMENT BY CONSENT NEEDS CONSENT DOES IT NOT?

civil disobedience, no collaboration, if people withdraw their consent and its public covenant it is enough, they can't arrest 'we' all of us, there are lots of good chaps and grannies too - and incontestibly, money talks, eh?

I assume you meant "free of the EU" and not as in 'a free people' because however Brexshite goes down, we will be as 'enslaved' as we ever were. Old master meet the new master. Morpheus might disagree, but whether we take the blue pill or the red pill, it kinda comes out the same.

Or did you mean 'free' as in 'FREE with every box of Shreddies' -a subtle pun perhaps on the national economy after brexit with business 'fucked' and the pound doing 'what it wants'?

Yes some Remainers follow the 'party' line, hell believe the party line from the Ministry Of Truth (or BBC as some still call it), just as some Leavers think that Breitbart is not a spoof and that some politicians, such as JRM, are telling the truth.

There are seventeen million coiled springs, ready to organise into crack paramilitary units, unless the check list of fifty-odd demands - for which they imagine that they voted on 23/06/16 - is met, don't you know?

Well, I'm always here to offer words of care and comfort to the losers, bitter as they are, in denial as they are, and many suffering from Brexit Derangement Syndrome, who still just can't admit that a clear majority of 17.4m voters, the biggest exercise of democracy in British history, mandated withdrawal from the crooked, corrupt cabal of twisted morality, injustice, perversion and anti-democracy that is the EU.

Political re-alignment is happening in the Republic of Ireland as well: but because government controls most of the media you do not hear much about it. The response columns of the Irish Independent are very different from those of the Irish Times/RTÉ.

This has to be taken in the context of history - if there is a chance to stick one on the Brits - then support for the EU is manifest: but abstract that and support for the EU is shallow and changeable - and can turn on a sixpence given the right conditions.

Continentals always fall into the mistake of believing that just because many people in Ireland/Scotland/Wales don't like the English very much - that they like them the more - they don't - no matter what they say to rile the English.

Jack Ketch said: "I assume you meant "free of the EU" and not as in 'a free people' because however Brexshite goes down, we will be as 'enslaved' as we ever were".

Dave G you are correct, and Jack Ketch is just being a pretentious Salacious Crumb. Liberty, liberalism, responsibility, patriotism and democracy are vital components of the individual freedom that is the best we know how to run our societies. Best for us, and best for the rest of the world. Anyone can mock what is good, though Jack ketch has had more practice than most.

The EU is merely an ideology with no roots and no principles. It serves only those who currently hold power; and they answer to no one but themselves. Ideologies appeal to the rootless, cynical, bitter and gullible. There is very little practical difference between Walther Funk's EU and Martin Selmayr's.

Whether Anon and Jack Ketch like it or not, the government provided the people of the UK the opportunity to choose between Remain (under Cameron's renegotiation) or Leave. The government and both campaigns were clear that Leave meant the UK leaving (abrogating) the EU treaties. Anything less is a betrayal which results in new laws being made in Brussels, and is therefore Remain.

Then why don't you just ban the ******* he us spoiling your blog! You will loose your 'locals' otherwise! MD

Perhaps because Raed knows that effectively banning anyone is a pretty futile exercise (as Dicky 12 Toes has proven on many occasions on other blogs). I think we should be grateful that Raed is slow to swing the ban hammer , lot of us here have said things which would have gotten us banned elsewhere. What floors me is how nasty some of the comments directed to Raed himself can be, other blog owners would not put up with it.